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A new study has given fresh hopes that a one-shot vaccine could inoculate a person against nicotine addiction. Cornell researchers injected mice with a gene for a nicotine antibody, and watched as those antibodies managed to prevent more than 80% of all nicotine from reaching their brains, the Wall Street Journal reports. The gene was injected into their livers, which acted as a factory by pumping out a steady stream of the antibodies.

The vaccine will need to undergo more testing on mice before making the leap to humans. "This is a new strategy that may work," the study's senior author said. "We won't know until [we] do the human studies, but it is a very difficult problem and we need new strategies." But don't get your hopes up too high; two past attempts at a nicotine vaccine have failed when tried on humans.

My advice, stop being a candy ass and just quit. Cold turkey, plane and simple. The nicotine is out of your body in days, it's the idea of it that takes time to erase from the mind. You just have to get use to not having one while you drink, not having one after you eat, not having one before bed, etc. and yes i was a smoker. I quit cold turkey, my wife, my mother, my father, my uncle, my grandfather. All cold turkey. Buck up!

VonLmo

Jun 29, 2012 9:53 AM CDT

Taking away what little enjoyment life has still to offer.New World Order mandatory vaccines